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title: Change the time zone - security policy setting (Windows 10)
description: Describes the best practices, location, values, policy management, and security considerations for the Change the time zone security policy setting.
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# Change the time zone - security policy setting
**Applies to**
- Windows 10
Describes the best practices, location, values, policy management, and security considerations for the **Change the time zone** security policy setting.
## Reference
This policy setting determines which users can adjust the time zone that is used by the device for displaying the local time, which includes the device's system time plus the time zone offset.
Constant: SeTimeZonePrivilege
### Possible values
- User-defined list of accounts
- Not Defined
### Best practices
None.
### Location
Computer Configuration\\Windows Settings\\Security Settings\\Local Policies\\User Rights Assignment
### Default values
The following table lists the actual and effective default policy values for the most recent supported versions of Windows. Default values are also listed on the policys property page.
| Server type or GPO | Default value |
| - | - |
| Default Domain Policy| Not Defined|
| Default Domain Controller Policy | Administrators<br/>Users|
| Stand-Alone Server Default Settings | Administrators<br/>Users|
| Domain Controller Effective Default Settings | Administrators<br/>Users|
| Member Server Effective Default Settings | Administrators<br/>Users|
| Client Computer Effective Default Settings | Administrators<br/>Users|
 
## Policy management
A restart of the device is not required for this policy setting to be effective.
Any change to the account for this user right assignment becomes effective the next time the account logs on.
### Group Policy
Settings are applied in the following order through a Group Policy Object (GPO), which will overwrite settings on the local computer at the next Group Policy update:
1. Local policy settings
2. Site policy settings
3. Domain policy settings
4. OU policy settings
When a local setting is greyed out, it indicates that a GPO currently controls that setting.
## Security considerations
This section describes how an attacker might exploit a feature or its configuration, how to implement the countermeasure, and the possible negative consequences of countermeasure implementation.
### Vulnerability
Changing the time zone represents little vulnerability because the system time is not affected. This setting merely enables users to display their preferred time zone while being synchronized with domain controllers in different time zones.
### Countermeasure
Countermeasures are not required because system time is not affected by this setting.
### Potential impact
None.
## Related topics
- [User Rights Assignment](user-rights-assignment.md)